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Time-lapse

Time-lapsing is a trick of technology to get rid of our limited perception of time. By recording shots and playing them back at a different speed, one can reach to the other timescales, namely, the slow ones for time-lapses and the fast ones for slow-motion.

Our input

we currently work (as of 30 December (2013)) on time-lapsing of the Plaza Mayor from our vantage point at Mayorcita.

• The Little People, our first timelapse of the Plaza Mayor was so successful that we uploaded it to the Internet, along with an interpretation of Alfonsina y el mar by Elena.
• 17 hours in the life of a Plaza Mayor, our second timelapse, this time at a reduced repetition rate (one image every 10 seconds) but for 17 hours.

Carlos Sanchez's input

Carlos is also exploring time-lapsing and once in a while release some publicly. Notable are:

• Nubes desde la Plaza Mayor, a view of the Santa Cruz from our flat, the first timelapse from Mayorcita and with a camera.
• Timescales, mainly clouds again, but this time with the view from our office.

Technical bits

We work both with our Nikon D40 camera and our HTC smartphone with (http://www.lapseit.com/ LapseIt].

The D40 has no built-in feature, se we recourse to gphoto2~[1].

The following is a basic setting to capture (here every 30s):

gphoto2 --capture-image-and-download --filename "%Y-%m-%d..%H%M%S.jpg" --interval 30

See also

• Koyaanisqatsi, a combination of slow-mo & time-lapses with music by Philip Glass.

Links

• Wikipedia.